All guys should have an opinion on the following question:
Ninjas or Pirates – which are more awesome?
For me, as cool as Johnny Depp made swashbuckling, it’s NINJAS all the way.
Stormshadow vs Snake-Eyes. The Legendary Bruce Lee showing people the awesomeness of Asian martial arts. Chuck Norris. The American Ninja series. Ninja Gaiden. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ninja stars. Kitana swords. Blow-dart guns. Grappling hooks. Two-toed boots. Palm climbing spikes. NUNCHUCKS. BATMAN (face it, he’s a ninja).
How could I NOT like NINJAS more than Pirates? What do they have, cannons? Single-shot pistols / rifles? Port wenches? Okay, that’s one thing they’ve got.
I much perfer the shadow warriors, which is why I’m really looking forward to Ninja Assassin – coming out on Thanksgiving.
Normally I’m not a huge fan of bloody, gory movies. I don’t watch horror flicks – I don’t like seing entrails spilled about, decapitation or other dismembered limbs. In some cases, I even get physically ill. For whatever reason, if there’s martial arts involved, I’m cool with it. In fact, the only thing in Kill Bill that got me a little queasy / naseous / vomitous was a part in the first Kill Bill movie where they seemed to allude to the fact that the bad guys had “taken” The Bride’s baby from her womb.
The commercial promises cool, fire-lit gory action, and much to the surprise of some of my friends – I’m REALLY looking forward to it.
So now all that’s left to do is to ask the question:
This was one of the VS. things I wanted to see from the SPIKE TV show “Deadliest Warrior”. It’s the age old question of who is more awesome and cool, but they decided to go with “Ninja vs. Spartan” and “Knight vs. Pirate”. The Ninja got massacred by the Spartan and the Knight got a gun in the face from the pirate.
I lean a little more towards Pirates, they have a blunderbuss that’s a glorified shotgun. Of course, they’d need to get a clear shot at the Ninja, which is the Ninja’s whole deal, they’ll kill you, if they can, before you realize they’re even there.
Pirate. for 2 reasons: Booze. Buxom Wenches.
A Ninjas life is a life of being alone and being stealthy.
to quote the song, “A pirate’s life for me!”
I wouldn’t really say the life of a Ninja is a life of being “alone”, perse. The whole concept of the Ninja started out as the peasants way of fighting the Samurai that were trying to oppress them. They’d use underhanded tactics and fight dirty rather than the strict honor code that the Samurai used. As people started to realize that their stealthy and underhanded techniques were affective they started to become hired mercenaries for assassinations ad infiltration missions.
Just because you were a Ninja didn’t mean you weren’t allowed to booze it up when you weren’t sneaking around in the night or out doing a mission. Many times Ninja’s would also be sent on missions with a whole squad of Ninjas for the more difficult tasks, so the Ninja wasn’t even really always alone either.
However, I do still think the glamour of the Pirate Life would win me over.